PCIe Preps for Internet of Things

Rick Merritt, EETimes 6/4/2014 01:30 PM EDT

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The PCI Special Interest Group is exploring ways it can expand use of its interconnect in the Internet of Things and SoCs. Meanwhile, the PCI-SIG is moving ahead with its 16 GTransfer/s PCI Express Gen 4 and other specifications driving the link's current use primarily in servers.

"The server solution is locked and loaded with PCIe 4, so we want to see where else the technology can proliferate," Al Yanes, president of the PCI-SIG, told EE Times. "We want to get it into SoCs and IoT designs, where there will be some growth."